Tokyo: Rabbit Police and Her Evil Partner

Chapter 240: Kazama-senpai's Investigation Results

After much thought, Yuan Yuzi came to the conclusion: Fushimi-kun must study until late every night, so he always stays in bed the next morning!

This guy advised her to go to bed early, but he was secretly doing it. It's so abominable...

Fushimi Shika wanted to continue practicing, but Gen Tamako caught a glimpse of Senior Kazama, so she quickly lowered the safety of her pistol and signaled with her eyes that Fushimi Shika should go and say hello.

Seeing this, Fushimi Shika exhaled a breath of stale air, relaxed his muscles, and his exposed skin was steaming. He twisted his neck, and his joints made a crackling sound.

"coming?"

Fushimi Shika wiped the sweat off his face and stared at Kazama Takusai's shoulder bag: "Have you eaten? There's no rush to talk about the progress of the investigation. Let's find a place to eat first. I'm starving."

Kazama Takusai had a complicated expression, but he did not refute it, so Fushimi Shika and Gen Tamako took it as his acquiescence. The three of them paid the bill and left the shooting range. Fushimi Shika did not intend to treat them, and after he spent the money, he was already penniless.

Kazama Takusai picked a pub he often went to. There were few people during the day, almost like a private room. After the three of them sat down and the boss served the side dishes, Gen Tamako kicked Fushimi Deer under the table, and the latter asked, "Did you find any clues?"

"The situation is a bit complicated." Fengjian Takusai poured himself a glass of wine.

Fushimi Shika was really annoyed and wanted to stuff mustard into his mouth. When did this guy become a riddle man?
"Then don't say it..."

Before Fushimi Shika finished speaking, he was kicked by Yuan Yuzi under the table. He sighed helplessly and asked, "If that's the case, why don't you elaborate on it?"

"The local police station in the Snow Mountain is short-staffed, so I had to look for the files myself." Fengjian Takusai glanced at his prosthesis and continued, "I searched for three days and found nothing. The files were 'borrowed' by someone."

He put emphasis on the word 'borrow'.

Fushimi Shika raised his eyebrows, guessing something in his mind.

Yuan Yuzi held the teacup in both hands, with a serious look on her face and her aho-hair shaking back and forth. She wanted to ask what was going on, but was too embarrassed to speak.

Kazama Takusai didn't keep the secret any longer and continued, "It was an instructor at the police academy who borrowed the files. I investigated afterwards and found out that his name was Shirata Masahiro, and that he was your future instructor... Is that correct?"

Yuan Yuzi nodded, indicating that it was correct and she couldn't wait to hear the follow-up.

Fushimi Shika suddenly interrupted and asked, "You said 'afterwards'...what happened?"

"Shirata Masahiro is missing," Kazama Takusai took a sip of wine, "To be precise, he is not missing, but he has gone into seclusion..."

He paused and added, "Shirata Masahiro voluntarily resigned and moved out of the dormitory. He took the files and backups with him, and the police station simply reported it as an accidental damage, and no one pursued the matter afterwards."

"Shirata Masahiro has no relatives. I visited him for three weeks and no one knew where he had moved to. I only heard from his friends that after he borrowed the case files, he suddenly became worried and silent, as if he had something to hide."

At this point, Kazama Takusai glanced at Fushimi Shika and said, "I guess there's something fishy about this case, so I didn't continue investigating it... You're the ones who reported the case, so you must know something that I don't know. Instead of investigating it blindly like a headless fly, why not just come back and ask you what you think?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the boss brought up the roasted bird.

Just as Gen Yuzi was about to think, Fushimi Shika gently patted the back of her head, forcing her to interrupt her thoughts.

"Eat, why are you daydreaming? It won't taste good if it gets cold!" Fushimi Shika urged.

Eat, eat, eat, all you know is eat! Instructor Bai Tian has such a big problem, how can you still have the mood to eat barbecue? What a cold lazy bum!
Gen Tamako was about to criticize Fushimi-kun, but then she changed her mind and felt that she was not as diligent as him. Fushimi-kun could even chop bullets with a knife, but she hadn't yet mastered the three-shot burst. She was too embarrassed to say that... Thinking of this, she immediately stopped, her aho-ge let down her head, and she silently picked up a skewer of yakitori.

Seeing this, Fushimi Shika took advantage of her before she could figure out what was going on and made a conclusion: "Instructor Shirata must have had other intentions when he borrowed the files. There is no need for us to speculate. When we contact Instructor Shirata one day, we will understand what is going on."

Yuan Yuzi followed his train of thought, thought for a moment, and couldn't help asking: "Then how do we find Instructor Bai Tian?"

"We'll talk about it later." Fushimi Shika laughed. Yuan Yuzi was very dissatisfied, put down the skewers, turned around and asked: "What do you mean? What do you mean by 'we'll talk about it later'..."

"We have to go to work tomorrow," Fushimi Shika made an excuse, "We can't keep bothering Kazama-senpai, right? He has his own life too."

"It's alright," Kazama Takusai replied, "I have nothing to do anyway, so I can't wait to continue investigating."

Fushimi Shika shook his head repeatedly: "No, no, no, you are just using busyness to numb yourself... What you need most now is rest, walk out of the shadow of the past, and stop trying to punish yourself."

Even though Kazama Takusai accepted Fushimi Shika's favor, he still felt that this guy's words were a bit disgusting...

Fushimi Shika clearly didn't want him to continue investigating, but he didn't dare to say it directly. He beat around the bush and forced him to rest under the guise of doing it for his own good. It was really shameless.

Gen Yuzi didn't know the inside story and thought Fushimi-kun was right. Senior Kazama had experienced no less pain and guilt than she did. Tracking down the real culprit of the Heavenly Punishment was only the goal of the Reasoning Team. How could they force the investigation work on Senior Kazama?

Senior Kazama has been running around Hokkaido during this period. Gen Yuzi feels that even if she feels a little uncomfortable, she should say thank you.

She tapped her fingers together, opened a can of beer, held it in both hands, hesitated for a moment, raised the glass and whispered: "Senior Fengjian, you have worked so hard during this period..."

Fengjian Takusai quickly raised his glass, clinked it with hers, and said softly, "Miss Yuzi, there is no need to thank me."

"In this matter, I, I should say thank you."

Yuan Yuzi herself did not realize that the subtext of her words was that she had not yet let go of another matter.

Kazama Takusai said 'hmm' and no longer insisted.

Fushimi Shika took a bite of the vegetable roasted bird, looked around, and suddenly asked: "Senior, what are your plans next?"

Takusai Kazama hasn't made up his mind yet. To be honest, he no longer has any goals in life. After thinking for a long time, he finally replied, "I don't have any plans."

"I see...how about we go on a trip to Okinawa? Just relax or something."

"No, I'm too lazy to run."

"How about going back to Hokkaido? The scenery in Sapporo is pretty nice too."

"It's inconvenient to travel in winter because of the heavy snow."

"..."

Fushimi Shika listed four or five place names in one breath, trying to move Kazama Takusai to another place.

Gen Yuzi realized that Kazama Takusai might leave Tokyo and might never come back to this sad place. She suddenly remembered Fumiaki-kun's suggestion and couldn't help saying, "Well, if possible, I hope Senior Kazama can teach me how to use a gun in actual combat..."

Takusa Kazama is the detective with the best shooting skills she has ever seen in actual combat. The coaches at the shooting range only teach target shooting. To learn actual combat, one has to pay a high price to hire a retired detective or soldier - she can't afford to hire a private instructor, but wants to catch up with the introverted Fushimi-kun, so she can only shamelessly beg Takusa Kazama.

"If it's too troublesome, just pretend I didn't say anything..." she quickly added.

"No trouble."

Kazama Takusai glanced at Fushimi Shika, who looked rather unhappy. He put down his wine glass and said seriously, "Don't worry, I will teach you how to use a gun to deal with a swordsman."

(End of this chapter)